Letter: President's tweets undermine foreign policy

It concerns me that the president, in peremptory and ill-considered tweets, has already attacked and weakened the underpinnings of American foreign policy instituted following World War II and the Cold War.

NATO has defended us and our allies against Russian incursion since the War and more recent terrorism. Twice in the 20th century, we have fought world wars begun in Europe and expanded from there. Since 1979, the U.S. has pursued a "One China" policy to bring China into the world economic fold and restrain Chinese expansionism, especially essential with recent moves into the South China Sea.

He has signaled a de facto one-state solution in the Middle East that will further inflame an already volatile situation. Does he forget the original America First movement characterized by xenophobia, racism, anti-Semitism and anti-immigration, a movement that surely hastened the rise of fascism and that assumed that America would not intervene in world affairs.